Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
New Story Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Million Dollar Hour; Man on Bridge of Ship
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
42 × 32 in. (106.7 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection, Philadelphia, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.874
Research Number: NCW: 874
InscribedLower left: Painted by N. C. WYETH; adhered to reverse: Graham Gallery label
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964); Private collection, Belvedere, CA and Collection of B. Clyde Cohen, 1977-?; Private collection, Belvedere, CA
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 14, as "Man on Bridge of Ship"; San Mateo, CA, La Galeria, "Wyeth / N. C. Andrew James," May 1 - June 16, 1977, as "Man of Bridge of Ship";
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 267; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.497, p. 286
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/2001